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  • On the post: Companies Keep Asking Us To Track You; We'd Rather You Be Protected From Tracking

    Seegras ( profile ), 18 Nov, 2016 @ 03:50am

    PPTP

    PPTP is about as secure as WEP. Both can be broken within seconds. And both are unfixable, since the vulnerability isn't in the implementation, but the protocol itself.

    Don't ever use them.

  • On the post: Companies Keep Asking Us To Track You; We'd Rather You Be Protected From Tracking

    Seegras ( profile ), 18 Nov, 2016 @ 03:43am

    Re: Re: Re:

    the odd f-bomb or other stronger curses may be used.

    This is EXACTLY the kind of fucking self-censorship I really can't stand.

    What you're doing isn't even swearing, you're just talking about swear-words, and STILL you're self-censoring yourself.

  • On the post: Companies Keep Asking Us To Track You; We'd Rather You Be Protected From Tracking

    Seegras ( profile ), 18 Nov, 2016 @ 03:39am

    Cultural differences

    Hi

    I very much disagree with you. While I think that derogatory statements might (might!) be a problem, I totally disagree when it comes to swearing. It's what we (Europeans!) do, and I really, really, can't cope with this US-American anti-swearing self-censorship-shit.

    It's immature, and it's constantly lamp-shading itself, actually drawing attention to itself by telling me "I would be swearing, but I'm censoring myself now" constantly. In other media, it's even worse: Beeping is just obscene.

    I'd rather have people writing honest.

  • On the post: Companies Keep Asking Us To Track You; We'd Rather You Be Protected From Tracking

    Seegras ( profile ), 18 Nov, 2016 @ 03:29am

    Re: Re: You still need to test your connection

    For instance: https://panopticlick.eff.org/ or https://www.heise.de/security/dienste/Browsercheck-2107.html (probably only available in German). Also a lot of others, but these two are probably trustworthy.

    Also, please forget FTP; the protocol is a disgrace.

  • On the post: Parliament Passes Snooper's Charter, Opens Up Citizens To Whole New Levels Of Domestic Surviellance

    Seegras ( profile ), 18 Nov, 2016 @ 03:10am

    The Queen could stop this

    But she won't, because she's the playing ball of lobbyists.

    It became very apparent in the debate about copyright a few years back, where the Queen was parroting the copyright maximalists, and you could see that she did not have any grasp on what was really going on.

    The same will happen here; because the Queen lives in a very bad filter bubble.

  • On the post: Music Composer For 'A Clockwork Orange' Sues Australian Who Created 'A Trumpwork Orange' Parody Trailer

    Seegras ( profile ), 17 Nov, 2016 @ 07:11am

    Re: Re: I've heard that music all over the place for years.

    A re-orchestration of Rossini’s overture from William Tell.

    And actually, the original value of Wendy Carlos arrangement is so low, it wouldn't even meet the standard for copyright eligibility in most of the world. It's just a copy of Rossinis work.

  • On the post: UK Home Secretary Agrees To Turn Over Accused Hacker Lauri Love To US Government

    Seegras ( profile ), 17 Nov, 2016 @ 07:03am

    Re: Somewhat off point, but...

    BOTH TIMES it was my team, the Democrats, that got royally
    > f**ked by this.

    That was after your team fucked your own candidate and defrauded your own party, to make Clinton your candidate instead of Sanders.

  • On the post: CNN Uses Copyright To Block Viral Clip Of Van Jones' Impassioned Statement

    Seegras ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2016 @ 03:22am

    Re: Re: Left did not lose ... anti-establishment won

    ...to see the left actually is losing.

    The left isn't even in the picture. The right wing of the democrats booted them out, and now the democrats are loosing as well.

  • On the post: The FBI Wants To Hire Young Tech Savants, Has No Idea How To Attract Them

    Seegras ( profile ), 08 Sep, 2016 @ 02:41pm

    Categorical imperative

    The point being, to be on the moral high ground, it's not sufficient just to be on the "right side", but more importantly, you need to only use just means.

    In other words, the END DOES NOT JUSTIFY THE MEANS. And within that framework, the FBI is right now, a band of bandits, criminals, and outlaws.

    And you don't want to work for organized crime.

  • On the post: Hillary Clinton Thinks Real-World Military Responses To Hacking Attacks Are A Nifty Idea

    Seegras ( profile ), 07 Sep, 2016 @ 08:31am

    Re: Re:

    Sadly, the AC is not that far off, with Clinton's fascist surveillance policy and such.

  • On the post: Hillary Clinton Thinks Real-World Military Responses To Hacking Attacks Are A Nifty Idea

    Seegras ( profile ), 07 Sep, 2016 @ 08:27am

    Re:

    Maybe the US should invest more resources in DEFENDING from cyber attacks

    You've got two choices.

    a) fix vulnerabilities, which will make everyone safer and more secure. That is the defensive stance. Fixing vulnerabilities, however, will also make your enemies more safe, and thus diminish your offensive potential.

    b) hoard knowledge of vulnerabilities. This will make everyone, including yourself, more vulnerable. But then you have a bigger offensive arsenal.

    One of these choices shows you're an idiot, unless your side has less technology that needs defending in the first place (like: if you're a terrorist outfit, and not a country, then you don't need to defend anyone).

  • On the post: Former Intelligence Official Leaks Details Of NSA's Hack Of French Presidential Network

    Seegras ( profile ), 07 Sep, 2016 @ 02:13am

    Re: Change the sign, Again!!

    Your so-called "French" fries are actually Belgian in origin. And hereabouts we call them by their French name, which happens to be "pommes frites" (fried potatoes; the pommes would be short for pommes-de-terre, actually).

  • On the post: DRM: Still Hurting Paying Customers The Most

    Seegras ( profile ), 05 Sep, 2016 @ 02:37am

    Re: Re:

    Reason it's Windows and not Linux: games.

    That's no reason. I've got around 2500 games on Linux. Around 2000 on steam and 500 more on GOG.com, humble bundle, itch.io and others.

    So the reason can only be some "specific game", which neither runs natively on Linux, nor works with wine. Which, for all intents and purposes, is right now Fallout 4 in most cases ;).

  • On the post: DRM: Still Hurting Paying Customers The Most

    Seegras ( profile ), 05 Sep, 2016 @ 02:31am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

    Skype works, if you want to put up with 32bit software on your 64bit OS, and have a shitload of 32bit-libraries in ancient versions installed. Oh, and it's an older skype-version as well.

    Visual Studio, of course, is not available.

  • On the post: DRM: Still Hurting Paying Customers The Most

    Seegras ( profile ), 05 Sep, 2016 @ 02:28am

    Re: Repeat after me: DIGITAL RIGHTS MISMANAGEMENT!

    I thought it was DIGITAL RESTRICTIONS MANAGEMENT.

    Like "artificial scarcity for the digital age".

  • On the post: Hollywood Freaking Out That Europe Might Make It Marginally Easier For People To Legally Access Content

    Seegras ( profile ), 04 Sep, 2016 @ 12:23am

    Re: This happened before

    The colonies' plans to import more tea and tea ingredients with lowered tariffs to make our many varieties widely available across borders will have "severe negative impacts on our industry and incentives to invest, which would stunt economic growth and innovation for years to come."

    You nailed it. This is exactly what we are seeing with CETA, TTIP and so on. It's the resurgence of mercantilism.

  • On the post: Another 19th Century Moral Panic: Theater

    Seegras ( profile ), 04 Sep, 2016 @ 12:09am

    Re:

    The thing is actually, that this prude 19th century (starts somewhere after 1815 and goes right up to 1918) is to blame for a lot of things we get wrong in history. We tend to apply the 19th century prudery to the 18th century or the middle ages, which were decidedly less prude.

    http://www.abcfrancais.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/F%C3%A9vrier1.jpg -- around 1410, yes, there are genitals visible https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Les_Tr%C3%A8s_Riches_Heures_du_duc_de_Berry_aout.jpg -- around 1410, people bathing naked.

    Both these 15th century paintings are rather benign. They just depict "as-is" without too much moral baggage. Which can not be said about the following caricatures from the late 18th century:

    http://www.sexualfables.com/images/Thomas_Rowlandson.jpg
    http://www.sexualfables.com/images/Thomas_Rowlandson2.jpg

  • On the post: Another 19th Century Moral Panic: Theater

    Seegras ( profile ), 03 Sep, 2016 @ 11:48pm

    Re: Little known facts

    Second cave drawing, naked ladies
    You got it wrong. It's actually man fucking a goat.
    http://cdn-www.cracked.com/phpimages/article/8/7/1/20871.jpg

  • On the post: Another 19th Century Moral Panic: Theater

    Seegras ( profile ), 03 Sep, 2016 @ 11:46pm

    Re: Re: Re: The more things change...

    We need to focus on curtailing this activity from the top-down, putting in place strict behavioral guidelines

    "strict behavioural guidelines". Is that an euphemism? Because actually the only thing that's even near a possible solution is to totally OUTLAW SURVEILLANCE. Like slavery, it's an abomination.

  • On the post: Former US Patent Office Director Freaked Out That Business Methods & Software Are Less Patentable Than Before

    Seegras ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2016 @ 07:39am

    Re: Software

    Either he's a liar, or the European Patent Office is illegally granting software patents.

    It's actually the latter, and illegally granting unenforceable patents (in the hopes actually, that the pressure will be on to change the legislation; and to make a good buck in between) is what we call "fraud".

    Sadly, there is nobody who has jurisdiction over the EPO, so this fraud has been going on for the last 20 years..

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